Clothes-drier.



.J, F. SCHEIDT.

CLOTHES DRIER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 6.19l6.

Patented July 10, 1917.

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JOHN F. SCHEIDT, 0F WIMBLEDON, NORTH DAKOTA.

CLOTHES-DRIER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 10, 1917.

Application filed June 6, 1916. Serial No. 101,974.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN F. SOHEIDT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Wimbledon, in the county of Barnes and State of North Dakota, have invented new and useful Improvements in Clothes-.Driers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in clothes driers and more particularly to that class thereunder known as adjustable clothes driers.

The primary object of the invention is the provision of a device of the above stated character wherein improved means are employed for effecting the vertical adjustment of the supporting member, whereby the clothes to be dried may be easily and quickly placed upon the drier and the drying of the same will be more readily accomplished.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a cap having a plurality of sockets for detachably receiving hanger arms and guides arranged on the hanger arms in which the clothes lines are arranged.

Figure drier;

Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken through Fig. 1;

Fig. 8 is a detail transverse sectional view illustrating the manner of connection of the base portion of the elei'ating means with the ridge post; and

Fig. 1 is a top plan View of the drier illustrating a portion thereof in section, showing the manner of connection of the arms with the cap plate;

Fig. 5 is a transverse sectional view;

Fig. 6 is a detail vertical section; and

Fig. 7 is a top plan view with a portion of the clothes supporting strands broken away.

Referring more particularly to the ac companying drawing, in which like characters of reference refer to corresponding parts in the several views, 5 designates an upright or tubular member supported in a plastic base 6, and mounted in said upright or tubular member 5 is an adjustable supporting member 7 This member 7 is likewise of a hollow tubular formation and provided with upper and lower closed end walls 8 and 9 respectively. The said adjustable supporting member may be ad- 1 is a perspective view of the justed at any suitable point by various arrangements, but I have shown and will describe the preferred form of such arrangement and that is preferably employed, embodying a base 10 consisting of a pair of upper and lower inverted U-shaped frames 11 and 12 respectively. These arms are disposed within the upright or tubular member 5 and arranged in angular and superposed relation one to the other. The connecting portion 13 of each of said frames is formed with a bearing opening 14.- serving as a bearing for the vertically disposed screw shaft 15. A shaft 16 is journaled in the limbs 17 of the support and carrying at on end, a beveled gear 18, said gear being located be tween certain of the limbs of the frames and adapted to mesh with a pinion 19, said pinion being mounted on the lower end of the screw shaft 15. This screw shaft 15 has its extreme lower end journaled in the connecting portion 13 of the lower frame 12 of the base and rotatably connected with such connecting portion through the medium of a bolt or nut 20. The upper end of said shaft 15 is threadedly'engaged in an opening 21 of the lower closed end wall 9 of the adjustable supporting member 7. One end of the shaft 16 is provided with a squared end portion 22 and adapted to protrude through the opening 23 formed in the side wall, at a point adjacent the bottom edge thereof, of the stationary upright or tubular member 5. An operating crank 2& engages with the squared end 22 of the shaft 16 for imparting movement to the beveled gear 18 which in turn rotates the screw shaft 15, by its engagement with the pinion 19, as is clearly apparent from the drawing, and it will therefore be seen by such operation the adjustment of the adjustable supporting member 7 within the upright or tubular member 5 will be effected.

The base 10, aside from being housed within the upright or tubular member 5, is permanently connected therein by the engagement of the thumb nuts 25 with the threaded openings 26 formed in an annular band 27. These thumb nuts 25 are threadedly connected with the walls of the upright 5 and arranged in a spaced concentric series. It is, of course, to be understood that the frictional contact of the adjustable supporting member 7 with the inner contour of the upright or tubular member 5 is sulfl a ing the supporting cient to'prevent any accidental rotary movement of the supporting member 7 with respect to the upright or tubular member 5.

Detachably or otherwise suitably secured on the stud 28 of the upper closed end wall 8, of the adjustable supporting member 7, by means of a thumb nut 29 is acap plate 30. This cap plate 30 is in the form of an annular disk and provided with pairs of diametrically oppositely arranged sockets 31. These sockets 31 are cast with the cap 30 and are of substantially triangular form incross section, such sockets converging from the marginal edge of the cap in a directiontoward the axis thereof for receivarms 32. Owing to the specific configuration of these sockets it will be apparent that the supporting elements 32 are snugly retained therein against any accidental lateral or rotary movement. The arms 32 are illustrated as being of triangular form in cross section and conform to the contour o-f'the sockets and frictionally engage with the walls thereof and further assuring against the accidental displacement of the arms from said cap 30. Disposed in partial obstructing relation to the entrance 33 of the sockets and flush with the p when the arms marginal edge of the cap 30, are upstanding projections 33, the purpose ofwhich is'to firmly support the arms 32 at a slight elevated angle and prevent the sagging thereof are subjected to the weight being dried. Furthermore, each provided at spaced inof the clothes these arms are tervals throughout their length with a series of line guides 3 L for receiving the strands of clothes lines 35.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, the advantages of construction and of the method of operation will be readily apparentto those skilled in the art to which the invention relates, and while I have described the principles of operation of the invention, together with the device which I new consider to be the best embodiment thereof, I desire to have it understood that the device shown is merely illustrative, and that such advantages may be made when desired as are within the scope of the claims appended thereto.

I claim:

A clothes drier embodying an upright, a supporting membermounted therein, a screw shaft carried by said supporting member and having threaded connection at one end with the latter, an upper and. lower U- shaped frame arranged in said upright, a transverse shaft journaled in the limbs of the upper frame, a beveled gear jiournaled between the confronting ends of said frame, a pinion on said last mentioned shaft adapted to mesh with said beveled gear, and means for imparting movement to said shaft.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN F. SCI-IEIDT.

Witnesses:

W. H. PADDEN, RoLLIr BERG.

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